John Edwards Continues His Downward Spiral

Monday nightâ€™s Red Eye discussed John Edwardsâ€™ continuing, disgraceful treatment of his family.Â Andrew Young, a former aide to Edwards, has proposed to write a book making some serious allegations regarding the senator’s extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter (which isnâ€™t her real name), including Edwards’Â pledge to someday marry Miss Hunter in a rooftop wedding complete with a performance by the Dave Matthews Band. According to Young, â€œEdwards promised Hunter that their star-studded wedding would take place just as soon as his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, died.â€

Host Greg Gutfeld quipped:

â€œThatâ€™s romance, John Edwards styleâ€

Red Eye then juxtaposedÂ a few creepy pictures with a photo ofÂ Edwards.Â One of them was of Nosferatu, the vampire from F.W. Murnauâ€™s famous silent German expressionist film based on Bram Stokerâ€™s Dracula.

â€œIn folkloric tales, vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited when they were alive.â€

Sure sounds like the Edwards mode of operation. But he’s not an old-fashioned vampire; he’s a modern one (similar to those in HBOâ€™s True Blood) that has a normal life and is a part of society where itâ€™s hard to tell him apart from regular people. Â Modern vampires also have a sexual appeal which they exploit to prey upon others.

“Obviously the act of feeding is a very blatant sexual metaphor. There’s penetration. There are bodily fluids exchanged. There’s a cathartic, frenzied physical moment. You know how a lot of people are attracted to the bad boy or the femme fatale? The hot sexy, dangerous person you know is really not good for you?â€

We know there is sexual appeal associated with power, political or otherwise; this could easily be likened to the sexuality and allure associated with todayâ€™s vampires.Â Once again, this sounds like Edwards, whose life work has been to use his power to suck the financial blood of others, and who now has sucked the spiritual blood out of his wife, via an extra-marital affair.